In 2014, David Barnett - a philosophy professor in Boulder, Colorado - glued two huge, horrendously ugly buttons onto the back of his phone to solve the age old problem of the tangled earphone cable. Sixty prototypes later, the PopSockets grip was born - an expandable, collapsible grip and stand for your phone that could still be used to tame the tangle.

The business has grown from David's garage to having offices in Boulder, San Francisco, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Finland. To date, we have sold over 100 million PopSockets grips globally.